About Accacia
Almost twenty years doing by hand what Accacia now automates.
Accacia grew out of Melanie Ligeiro's practice in business plans and funding applications across Portugal and Angola since 2007. Today it is a platform and a team in Lisbon: the platform reads the calls and proposes the plan and the figures; people step in where they are still needed.
What Accacia does
The platformNew
Reads funding calls, matches each project against the open opportunities in Portugal, Europe and the CPLP countries and proposes the business plan and projections with the basis for every figure. The person confirms; the machine never decides.
Open the RadarApplication services
On the most demanding projects, the team adds what the platform does not do: feasibility studies, business plans and financial models, preparing and reviewing applications, programme design. They are contracted separately, at published prices.
See services and pricesEncontros
Sessions on one specific funding opportunity, presented to your community, ending with a free eligibility check.
About the Encontros
Not a generic programme-management platform, not a traditional consultancy.
Before creating Accacia, I spent almost twenty years doing by hand the work it now automates.
Since 2007 I have structured business plans, feasibility studies and funding applications in Angola and Portugal.
I prepared successful applications to PRODESI, the Development Bank of Angola, Deutsche Bank credit lines and the Angola Investe programme; in Portugal, to PT2020, the PRR and Portugal 2030, including R&D projects, SIFIDE and RHAQ. I was project manager at the Europe Startup Nations Alliance, a Horizon 2020 project across 27 countries, and a consultant on the CircularInvest.eu programme.
My master's thesis at Instituto Superior Técnico was on using artificial intelligence to prepare business plans. That is where Accacia comes from.
- Experience
- Almost 20 years in management and funding consulting, since 2007
- Applications
- Approved in Portugal, Angola and European programmes
- Education
- Master's in Information and Business Systems, Instituto Superior Técnico; BA (Hons) Business Enterprise, University of Birmingham
- Mentoring
- Mentor at VC4A and Cabo Verde Digital
Where Accacia has been
Each line has its own news post, dated and sourced.
Web Summit Lisbon 2026
Selected for the Startup Alpha and Impact Startup programmes; official launch 9 to 12 November
INAPEM, ANGOTIC 2026
AI business planning and methodological guidance for entrepreneurs supported by INAPEM, in Luanda
Digital Summit Angola 2025
Silver Sponsor and platform demonstration
Young & Business, Digital.ao 2025
Session with young entrepreneurs from Angola's technology ecosystem
AIEFS 2025
Angola International Executive Finance Summit, Luanda
The company
Certified startup in Portugal. We work in Portugal, Europe and the CPLP countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.
- Brand
- Accacia by LusoHub
- Legal entity
- LUSOHUB, UNIPESSOAL LDA
- Address
- Rua 3 da Matinha, Marvila, 1950-326 Lisbon, Portugal
- hello@accacia.net
- Accacia on LinkedIn
Institutions
Incubators, universities, public bodies and associations
To support more founders without more manual work: the portfolio matched against the open opportunities and each project's progress in view.
I represent an institutionFounders
Founders, startups and SMEs
You are looking for funding you can actually apply to and a plan ready for banks and investors.
I am a founder or a businessGood ideas deserve a real opportunity.
A question before you choose? Write to us at hello@accacia.net.